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Silly season starts here
14 May 2008
Posted by Sean McManus
The moment the sun comes out, there are all sorts of silly maths-related stories in the press. You know the kind of thing: some boffin's worked out the formula for health (a lot of algebra which breaks down into eat well, exercise more) or someone's calculated how many crisps you'll eat in your lifetime (and what percentage of those are paprika flavoured).
Well, this one I thought was hilarious (your mileage may vary): According to Leicester University, text messages are a more expensive communications channel than the Hubble space telescope. When you work out the cost per megabyte (assuming 5p per text of 160 characters), it costs you £374.49 per megabyte to send texts. And Nasa gets data from the space telescope for £8.85 per megabyte.
"Hubble is by no means a cheap mission," says Dr Nigel Bannister, a space scientist at the University of Leicester. "But mobile phone text costs are astronomical."
Ba-doom-tch!
Well, this one I thought was hilarious (your mileage may vary): According to Leicester University, text messages are a more expensive communications channel than the Hubble space telescope. When you work out the cost per megabyte (assuming 5p per text of 160 characters), it costs you £374.49 per megabyte to send texts. And Nasa gets data from the space telescope for £8.85 per megabyte.
"Hubble is by no means a cheap mission," says Dr Nigel Bannister, a space scientist at the University of Leicester. "But mobile phone text costs are astronomical."
Ba-doom-tch!
Labels: mobile communications, space
# posted by Sean McManus at 2:36 PM 
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